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100
What state did the Spanish leaders want to extend their colony into during the 1500's?
Florida
100
What are places where the French and Native Americans met to trade goods called?
Trading Posts
100
Who was a young military leader from Virginia?
George Washington
100
What was the first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States
St. Augustine
100
What town was found in 1610 and named the capital of New Mexico?
Santa Fe
200
What did wealthy ranchers build that were like large estates?
Haciendas
200
What was the River to the west called that the Native Americans told the French about?
Mississippi River
200
What fort did Washington and his soldiers build on a meadow in what is now southwestern Pennsylvania?
Fort Necessity
200
What two countries did New Spain strech between? hint - They had the capital of Mexico City.
South America and Mexico
200
Who led a small Spanish army north across the Rio Grande?
Don Juan de Onate
300
What did the Spanish build to protect the missions that were like military forts?
presidios
300
What French missionary set out to explore Mississippi River in the summer of 1673?
Jaques Marquette
300
Where did Metacom want to force the English out of?
New England
300
What did Marquette draw dealing with the Mississippi?
maps
300
What place did LaSalle reach in April 1682?
Gulf of Mexico
400
Who was the spanish explorer that traveled through the Florida region in the early 1500's?
Juan Ponce de Leon
400
Who was the fur trader that accompanied Marquette?
Louis Jolliet
400
What was the name of the long war between Britain and France in the 13 Colonies?
French and Indian War
400
What is a stream or a river called that flows into a larger river?
tributatary
400
What was the rugged backcountry near?
Appalachian Mountains
500
Who led a small fleet of Spanish warships to Florida?
Pedro Menendez de Aviles
500
Who was the French explorer that continued the Exploration of the Mississippi River?
Robert La Salle
500
Who was the British General that captured Quebec in September 1759?
James Wolfe
500
What stated that the colonists were no longer allowed to settle on land west of the Applachian Mountains?
Proclamation of 1763
500
Where did settlers move across the Appalachian Mountains and enter into in the middle 1700's?
Ohio River Valley
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